After the Virginia Tech shooting in , there were discussions about whether to tear down Norris Hall, where most of the violence occurred. Columbine High School currently has a nearby memorial featuring remembrances about the victims and a wall of quotations from community members.
Glass said the district is considering constructing the new school near the existing location, preserving the Hope Library by making it the cornerstone of the new building, and retaining the name Columbine High School. In , Laura Farber was a freshman sitting in the cafeteria when gunshots rang out at Columbine High, sending her and other students fleeing outside.
She recently directed We Are Columbine , a documentary film that brought her back inside the school for the first time since her high school graduation in She initially worried that tearing down the school would be like erasing what happened there, but she also feels for students and teachers who continue to deal with security threats. If the school does get torn down, Farber says she would like Columbine survivors and family members of victims to have a chance to visit the building once more — something that was a big part of her own healing process.
Write to Katie Reilly at Katie. Reilly time. When officials executed a search warrant at Kucharski's home, they found parts used to make explosive devices, a Molotov cocktail and parts to make more, as well as notebooks with instructions for making a bomb, drawings of explosive devices and sections about Columbine, the documents said. Officials also found a digital camera that contained photos of Lewis and Kucharski preparing to manufacture explosives. In one notebook filled with lists of types of guns and their prices, the complaint said, there was also a diary entry that appeared to reference Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre: "I think I'm gonna go with a Klebold setup.
A tec-9 and a sawed-off shotgun. But instead of a double barrel, I want one like eric shot. When interviewed on September 16, Kucharski told police, "I don't know why I did it, I just did it because that was on my mind at the time," according to the complaint. She allegedly said she planned to use the explosives and then guns to carry out the attack, and that she hoped to cause more casualties than Columbine.
She said the plan had stopped about a month ago when she and her friends stopped discussing it, and that she hadn't made an explosive in a month, the complaint said. When Lewis, was interviewed the same day, he said he joined "natural born killers" to help convince Kucharski not to go through with the plan. In the days immediately following the shootings, it was speculated that Harris and Klebold purposely chose athletes, minorities and Christians as their victims. It initially was reported that one student, Cassie Bernall, was asked by one of the gunmen if she believed in God.
Her parents later wrote a book titled She Said Yes , honoring their daughter. However, it later was determined the question was not posed to Bernall but to another student who already had been wounded by a gunshot.
Subsequent investigations determined Harris and Klebold chose their victims randomly, and the two teens originally had intended to bomb their school, potentially killing hundreds of people. There was speculation that Harris and Klebold committed the killings because they were members of a group of social outcasts called the Trenchcoat Mafia that was fascinated by Goth culture.
It also was speculated that Harris and Klebold had carried out the shootings as retaliation for being bullied. Additionally, violent video games and music were blamed for influencing the killers. However, none of these theories was ever proven. Through journals left behind by Harris and Klebold, investigators eventually discovered the teens had been planning for a year to bomb the school in an attack similar to the Oklahoma City bombing.
Columbine High School reopened in the fall of , but the massacre left a scar on the Littleton community. Mark Manes, the man who sold a gun to Harris and bought him rounds of ammunition the day before the murders, was sentenced to six years in prison. Another man, Philip Duran, who introduced Harris and Klebold to Manes, also was sentenced to prison time.
Some victims and families of people killed or injured filed suit against the school and the police; most of these suits were later dismissed in court. Gun control and disagreements over the interpretation of the Second Amendment continue to be a controversial issue in the United States, where 40, people die from gun-related injuries each year. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, , when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War.
The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Southeast Asia. The Oklahoma City bombing occurred when a truck packed with explosives was detonated on April 19, , outside the Alfred P.
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